Do I really need ALL the updates?

Do I really need ALL the updates?

So i recently got windows 8.1. Doing so, I wanted to keep my pc as clean as possible. Do I really need the 20 different security updates and like 15 updates for windows 8.1? Can't i just get the latest ones and omit the others?

You generally need all the ones Windows Update presents to you. One exception to this is installing Windows 8 and then updating to 8.1 I was able to apply just the one update documented as necessary to make the 8.1 update appear in the Store. (Actually two updates are documented as necessary, but WU only presented one of them to me, and it was sufficient.) Thus, I avoided applying a bunch of updates to my fresh 8.0 install that would have been immediately superseded by the 8.1 update.

Is there a good way to sift through updates without going the "check for updates" route? I'm hoping for a method to find updates that actually effect system performance or robustness, rather than security updates. I mean, other than reading the descriptions manually.
It would be nice if there...

Hi again,i hope you all take this thread seriously because my previous thread not taken seriously.so plz help me in this matter.i have windows 7 SP1 & i set windows to check for updates,but let me choose whether to download and install them.so windows telling me updates are available in...

hi
it seems that when there is an updates for 8.1
i just want to d/l 1 update at a time that it does all of them is it me
or does anyone else have that problem(not really a problem per se)
i just like to install 1 update at a time

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question, so apologies in advance if I'm doing this incorrectly. On Tuesday I bought a Samsung laptop Windows 8. The first two days things were fine, then on Wednesday afternoon as I logged on there was some sort of a message on the bottom...